Obama Threatens Florida over Purging Non-Citizen ‘Voters’

Last Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a new low in its efforts to prevent individual states from combating vote fraud. The state of Florida was ordered to halt its efforts to identify and purge its voter rolls of non-citizens. “Our records do not reflect that these changes affecting voting have been submitted to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for judicial review or to the Attorney General for administrative review as required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” wrote T. Christian Herren Jr., the DOJ’s lead civil rights lawyer. “Accordingly, it is necessary that they either be brought before that court or submitted to the Attorney General for a determination that they neither have the purpose nor will have the effect of discriminating on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group under Section 5.”

Florida is not backing down. Despite being given until Wednesday to decide whether or not to comply with the DOJ’s order, it took state officials only one day to reach a decision. “We have an obligation to make sure the voter rolls are accurate and we are going to continue forward and do everything that we can legally do to make sure than ineligible voters cannot vote,” said Chris Cate, a spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Friday. “We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot. We are not going to give up our efforts to make sure the voter rolls are accurate.”

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires the DOJ or or a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to “preclear” changes in “any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1964,” in order to prevent “denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.” Florida is one of a handful of states, predominantly in the South, covered by Section 5, due to its historical efforts to suppress minority voting. Critics contend Section 5 continues to stigmatize states that have long abandoned tactics such as requiring non-white voters to pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test. The Act contains a bailout provision for states that can demonstrate a record of good behavior, yet many counties within those states consider the cost of doing so prohibitive.

Earlier this year Secretary Detzner worked with the Florida’s Department of Motor Vehicles to identify more than 2,600 people who were registered to vote despite being non-citizens at the time they applied for a driver’s license. Critics of the effort claim that many of those drivers become citizens between scheduled license renewals. They further contend that many of the warning letters sent out by state notifying these individuals that they would be purged from voter rolls unless they provided proof of citizenship within 30 days, were sent to people who were citizens.

Detzner, who contended that earlier efforts by his agency had identified 182,000 voters who were non-citizens by comparing voter rolls and driver’s license databases, revealed that he and his staff were refused access by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the federal database containing more up-to-date immigration and citizenship information. Thus, it would appear that the federal government is working at cross-purposes with itself: the DHS won’t assist Florida in its effort to be as non-discriminatory as possible, even as the DOJ insists that Florida is engaging in discrimination. And not just with respect to Section 5. The DOJ also contends Florida is violating the 1993 National Voter Registration Act that requires states to maintain “accurate and current” voter registration lists “in a uniform and non-discriminatory manner.”

Yet if testimony by former DOJ Voting Section attorney J. Christian Adams before a House Judiciary Subcommittee is accurate, the DOJ’s efforts in Florida are as hypocritical as it gets. “One of the most unfortunate circumstances relating to the 2012 elections is the absence of DOJ enforcement of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act,” Adams told the Subcommittee. “Voter rolls nationwide are filled with ineligible and dead voters. Yet the Department of Justice is deliberately refusing to enforce Section 8 and require states to purge rolls because of philosophical disagreement with the purging statute. Failure to enforce Section 8 to require states and localities to clean up voter rolls presents a troubling circumstance prior to the November 2012 elections.”

Arnold Ahlert is a former NY Post op-ed columnist currently contributing to JewishWorldReview.com, HumanEvents.com and CanadaFreePress.com. He may be reached at atahlert@comcast.net.

BS77

Support VALID PHOTO ID voter legislation….it is the only way to make sure voting is fair, honest, legal etc
I needed to show a photo ID to rent a rug shampoo machine….surely, I should have to show a valid ID to vote!!!

Eyes_Open

But you can get a valid photo ID and still be in the country illegally. That is one of the biggest problems. This should be handled in a two step measure in my opinion. First, if you are not a legal US citizen (here legally but not a citizen) it should be printed across your ID just like most states do if you are below the legal drinking age. THEN require a photo ID in order to vote. IMHO, illegals shouldn't be given an ID of any kind, especially a DL, but if they are (as most states do anyway) it should also have the Non-Citizen water mark.

joe

Holders brazen corruption is staggering.He has no interest or respect for the laws in this country.
His greed for power is unending and you can bet he has a bank account in a foreign country he is stuffing with American tax payers $.

Photo ID's are not difficult to get.Most states have programs that assist people in getting an ID.Since you need 1 to do everything from file for welfare to buy cold medicine ,Holder's voter fraud program is blatantly obvious .

Btw determining a persons race by reading their last name is presumptive,prejudicial and extremely racist.The government consider race as self determined .There is no measurement to grade racial content.Governments and media have no right to determine race by a name.Just ask George Zimmerman who was labeled a white Jew before his personal info was known.

sedoanman

Re: "…determining a persons race by reading their last name is presumptive,prejudicial and extremely racist."

LOL! There was a blond, blue-eyed, Norwegian fellow at work whose last name was "Overa". He was constantly getting "come-join-us" literature from the Hispanic employees committee.

Johncdavidson

My son's mother is from Spain which the Moor's invaded centuries ago so I'm not sure what classification he falls under. What I do know he is an American citizen and a human being. Other than that, his attitude towards others is what counts the most.

Anie Rhys-Davis

Can anyone say Elizabeth Warren ?

Ken

Becuase they cannot win an honest election, the Obama administration has to resort to this!! One can only wonder what is next!!

truebearing

Welcome to Obama's Grave New World….or should I say coup, a la Antonio Gramsci. Holder is Obama's enforcer, stonewaller, intimidator, and enabler of election fraud. He is a crook and a racist. He has violated his oath as AG in every way imaginable, but Obama will fire himself before he fires Holder. Holder is Obama's firewall.

Larry

The Administration and the DoJ are doing this because accurate voting roles make it much, much more difficult to find a box of 3,000 ballots that are uniformly Democrat.
They work on the principle first put out by Stalin, that it doesn't matter how the people vote that counts, it's how the vote is counted that matters.

H&R_ Barack

Currently, only half (50%) of Americans pay income taxes. Yet non-citizens can vote for spending programs.

Democrats have a vested interest in open borders, voter fraud, as well as expanding the numbers of persons on government welfare.

In the mean time, dead voters continue to validate the Alinsky OBAMA agenda;

"Currently, only half (50%) of Americans pay income taxes. Yet non-citizens can vote for spending programs"

What's wrong with this picture? Ben Franklin said the republic would last only until people on the public dole found out they could vote themselves money.

Juana

Obama and his Flying Monkeys make me froth at the mouth.

http://imataxpayertoo.wordpress.com kathy

Too bad we can't just pour a bucket of water on him and watch him melt….

DogWithoutSlippers

Anything short of having to present photo I.D. is voter fraud – PERIOD!

H&R_ Barack

Saul Alinsky taught Obama to use gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution. They are the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist.

"……….the end justifies almost any means…."

mlcblog

Almost?!

oldtimer

The Obama adm. supports voter fraud, that's how they won the election.

davarino

Where is the Great Jimmy Carter on this issue that challenges the integrity of an election? Like all demis, brain dead.

Schlomotion

Right now the real threat of voter fraud does not come from non-citizen voters. For the real voter fraud, look to the RNC and the delegate vote count. Romney is going to LOSE the delegate vote. Paul is going to WIN the delegate vote. Already the RNC has:

Now finally, they are losing the delegate vote as Al Gore did, but they will arbitrarily appoint Romney as the winner and discredit the DELEGATE vote whereas previously, they discredited the POPULAR vote.

Therefore, the real voter fraud will be coming from the Republican Party Leadership. If Mr. Ahlert ignores that, then he really SUPPORTS voting fraud.

CurmudgyOneJr

We all must get offour butts and work hard to elect Romney over Obama in November.

ABO2012

Anyone But Obama 2012

Johncdavidson

I never have encountered so many outraged citizens that have been so forthright with their opposition to this global movement these Commies are heading towards. Forward is a good term for them. It is the path it leads, that is upsetting.

Once the media realizes that soon a free press will be non-existent, maybe they too, will wake up.

donald

not Rommey Vote Ron Paul open your eyes Romney an Obama think alike.

Dennis Metz

It always comes down to doing something good for blacks , that is the one and only thing considered . they are afraid blacks will be hurt , but the bottom line is democraps know minorities vote for them and that is why democraps want to make sure illegal votes count. democraps do not care about this country, they are crooks and want to stay in power by giving social welfare to its voter base

democraps are not for doing the right thing for America they would sell out their own soul

Spider

"democraps are not for doing the right thing for America they would sell out their own soul "
You used the word "would" here as if selling their souls is passed tense…

Spider

I had that wrong the first time —-
"democraps are not for doing the right thing for America they would sell out their own soul "
You used the word "would" here as if selling their souls is future tense…

donald

your not sure of that are you? look who has the power of vote right now and you see what a mess the country is in it is both doing in we need more then just the two groups of butt wipes to run this country!

Dennis Metz

read this article and you will see what it is all abouthttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/rep-joe-walsh-jes…
blacks keep the demo in power , blacks do not care that workers that pay taxes are carying the load as long as one of their boyz is in power and can give minorities more power with more afirmative action

mlcblog

it's not just blacks, it's labor unions and college professors and their students and quite a few others…

Spider

Photo IDs alone are not good enough as shown by the article. Many people with drivers licenses and other State Issued IDs are illegal aliens and are not eligable to vote. So in my opinion these voter roll purges are necessary to insure the integrity of our elections. Holder is conspiring to commit voter fraud and should be charged with felonies when the next Attorney General takes office. Not just for enabeling blatant voter fraud by Illegal Aliens.but also for the Fast and Furious debacle and failure to prosecute Balck Panther voter intimidators.

Mach1Duck

What does one do when the highest office in the nation to uphold the law is itself breaking the very laws it is supposed to uphold. This is was not a racist issue until that office Holder and his superior made it one. Time for a change and some very strenious law enforcement against those who belive they are above the law.

Johncdavidson

We only have to see how the DOJ is ignoring John Corzine's obvious criminal activities to realize we've elected a crook to protect other crooks.

Steve Chavez

Is the CORRUPTION AND VOTER FRAUD so big that the FBI, the Secretary of State's, and election officials just throw up their arms and GIVE UP? I THINK SO since ACORN, and now other groups that took their place, ARE DOING THE SAME!

My 12-year old son was registered as a Democrat in 2008. He, or I, received five calls from the Democrats which I recorded. On the third call I informed the worker and still received two more calls. IN 2010, I, or my son, started getting calls in September so I informed a State election official at our local State Fair. He took my name, and my son's, phone number and I never received a call for SS# or any info. I got five calls total on that series with the last one being an hour before the polls closed. NOW I CALL LOCAL AND STATE OFFICIALS and they seemed concerned BUT I SUSPECTED THEY WERE DEMOCRATS TOO due to their type of questioning.

NOW IN 2012, HE is still getting calls for the primaries and one from Obama. NOW IT'S THREE DIFFERENT FIRST NAMES AND STILL CHAVEZ FOR THE LAST NAME. One yesterday was for a female. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've called the media for years, no story. DEMOCRATS?

Johncdavidson

The Liberals managed to buy up most local newspapers to make sure opposing veiwpoints are suppressed. What they forgot, we don't need to read their crap anymore.

Johncdavidson

Never before in our history has our constitutional rights been under seige by those elected to abide by it.

mrbean

Michele Obama said: “We don’t have much time,” Michelle Obama declared to voters on Monday, urging them to get out the vote as her husband stayed at the White House and worked the phones the day before the midterms. Rallying Democrats for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas, Mrs Obama told the crowd to round up people who voted in 2008 but “who are planning to sit this one out.” “You need to tell them that they can’t just vote ONCE and hope for change to happen,” she said.

guest

Let them go to the mosque for voters. Don't come to Americans.

marios

Obama was Acorn, one of the most corrupted US organization lawyer. He won on filthy propaganda and open fraud in election. Democraps are going to repeat the same scenario. For them all means are good. I feel like we live already in Venezuela, or any socialists country. Democraps party use intimidation, bribes, laws distortions…
If BHO would be able to steal this election USA is done.

Jacob mandelblum

I would tell Governor SCOTT of my state of Florida to tell the DOJ to go fly a kite, for lack of a more direct and explicit word….
Think evil and you’ll hit it right and what OBAMA’s sidekick HOLDER is doing is aiding and abetting
VOTING FRAUD.

Coming to think about, how come the Congress sages haven’t in all those decades, come up with
the mandatory ID CARD like in every civilized country of the world and some not so civilized but still
with the stupid scratching your left ear with your right hand, constituted by getting a drivers license
form that doesn’t give driving privileges, while anyone getting hold of your Social Security number
can screw yoiu royally ?????

Isn’t Cngress awre of what was shown recently on TV, how easy is to vote in N. Carolina ???
The guy testing it wanted to submit his passport as ID proof and was told he didn’t need anything
but just write his name ???
So this guy can go around and using a different name at every polling place, place as many votes
as polling places he can reach ???
And can anybody guarantee that this not precisely what OBAMA, bent on being reelected no matter
how and his sidekick HOLDER are aiming at ?????

Willy Rho

The Voting Rights Act, on the face of it, is Unconstitutional. Any Federal Law which applies to a selected few of the States or subdivisions of States violates equal protection of the Law. That statement is True, regardless of what any Court says otherwise. The Sates should take back some of their 10th Amendments Rights. That also includes State Land Stolen by Federal Fiat. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the Fed Government can steal State Lands. States, take back our Lands.

Asher

We always knew that the country was headed for collapse…Agenda rules collapse the system, disenfranchise legal voters, bail out your budies, create high unemployment and distribute the wealth to the minorities…once they get a taste of freebies paid by hard working taxpayers, they will not want to go back to finding jobs or getting off their duffs to support themselves…Thus the Communist government wins…Hillary is dedicated to the small Arms treaty to ban hand guns and other weapons..Last actions…disarm the public before you send the U.N into the country to go after people's weapons and trash people's 2nd amendment rights! Holder and Axelrod almost in Fisticuffs in the White House…appears things are not as Hunky Dorey as they tried to make us believe!

Omar Kahlid

The most corrupt president in history, a president that makes me long for the Carter years, cannot be expected to act in any other way. As a muslim it is his sworn duty to his god to do everything in his considerable power to bring the United States to it's knees before the Caliphate. People if you believe that God's protection around America is still in place then do not worry or prepare. For those of use that believe BHO is fulfilling 3 thousand year old prophecy, we wait patiently wrapped in God's arms. America gave up God. Why would God not also give up America. We sacrifice our innocent and demand the world respect us. We had it all and gave it away for porn, drugs and 2% of the population demanding that we redefine morality to fit their deviant behaviors.

tagalog

No doubt there's some law somewhere that requires states to help fund and administer federal elections held on their territory, but just in case there isn't, is there some reason why, if the United States government is going to the trouble of suing states (who generally have the power to regulate elections) over voter identification, the states have to contribute money, time, people, and space to federal elections?

I mean, it could be "sue us and run your OWN damn elections, feds."

Jaladhi

Dems won the last election by such fraud and they want to keep that advantage. Let all illegals,and foreigners vote in the election and keep dems in power forever!! That is one change Dems don’t want to change!!

Serafino

1. Buy firearms. Lots of them – short ones, long ones, etc. The battle between the good and evil is coming. Maybe not in our lifetime, but it is definitely coming.

2. Vote. The more of us vote, the better chances we have of tipping the scale in our favor, despite the long democrat tradition of voter fraud.

3. Talk to people around you. Some will refuse to hear you, so move on to the next person. There is a large number of Americans who would be willing to pause and think about your ideas. All it takes is a good storyteller. Ben Shapiro, who is a frequent contributor to the Front Page Magazine and an unbelievably intelligent and articulate writer, once correctly noted that an emotionally charged and personal story will travel right to the hearts of people. All that needs to happen is for your story to spark a thought in the mind of a person.

MATT Benj

It is VERY disturbing that the DOJ works in such unlawful ways of denying states their right to uphold both state and federal election laws…what a bunch of hypocrates. Even more disturbing is what I've heard- the vote counts for the 2012 election will be conducted overseas by a Spainish auditing group, not even counted on US soil…WTF??

WilliamJamesWard

The Obama administration, a criminal enterprise continuing to run their scams and pilfer the
treasury, getting away with the largest heist in World History and they will not stop until there
is nothing left to steal. It seems every criminal in America has their hands out and are working
towards the death of our Nation, that's what most parasites do, kill the host and then die. It
would be nice to reverse the process……………………William

Eyes_Open

This should be handled in a two step measure in my opinion. First, if you are not a legal US citizen (here legally but not a citizen) it should be printed across your ID just like most states do if you are below the legal drinking age. THEN require a photo ID in order to vote. IMHO, illegals shouldn't be given an ID of any kind, especially a DL, but if they are (as most states do anyway) it should also have the Non-Citizen water mark.

Willy Rho

The voter rights Act is Unconstitutional on the face of it. Equal Protection of the Law is violated by requiring only a few states to obey this law. And then even subdivisions of those states. The States should tell the Federal Government to Stick it where the sun doesn't shine. Make them deploy troops if they think it is so important to violate the Constitution. Then secede from the Union on justifiable grounds.

Ronald Johnston

There is a valid reason for leftist criminals to oppose voter ID!!! To commit voter fraud!!!!

dad5

Of course! Those illegals are all Democrats! Have them vote in California, where it is encouraged, as the state goes bankrupt, for some reason beyond me……. And the governor, as well.